Transferring an existing domain entails switching the domain registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to take your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting from our company, you will exercise absolute authority over your domain names through our custom Hepsia Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you would like, including locking and unlocking any of the domains registered through us, provided that the particular Top-Level Domain extension supports this option. Clicking on the padlock icon that you will find next to any domain name registered in your Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking it once more will allow you to alter that status. If you’d like to transfer a domain to another registrar, you can initiate the procedure right away. Since unlocking a domain through your Control Panel will take effect immediately, no propagation period or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just have to complete the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing your domains with us is extremely easy and the registrar lock feature makes no exception. If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to administer the domain names registered through us using the exact same Control Panel via which you will administer your hosting account. For your convenience’s sake, the domains will be listed in alphabetical order and on the right-hand side you’ll see a padlock-like icon if the particular domain supports the registrar lock option. If you click on the icon, you will find out if the given domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to update this status by clicking once more. The status will be updated instantaneously and you will be able to start the transfer without the need to wait for the update to be shown on WHOIS lookup websites or for our company to do anything on our end.